http://www.thegambiablog.co.uk/2009/07/hymn-to-the-baobab/ Sharing over 20 years of experience in The Gambia Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:54:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.thegambiablog.co.uk/2009/07/hymn-to-the-baobab/comment-page-1/#comment-1237 February - news from resort | The Gambia Blog Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:23:21 +0000 http://www.thegambiablog.co.uk/?p=594#comment-1237 [...] River Gambia and has a genuinely peaceful location. You can sit with a cocktail beneath the massive baobabs and listen to the oysters clacking on the mangrove reefs… The food at Sitanunku is all [...] [...] River Gambia and has a genuinely peaceful location. You can sit with a cocktail beneath the massive baobabs and listen to the oysters clacking on the mangrove reefs… The food at Sitanunku is all [...]

]]> http://www.thegambiablog.co.uk/2009/07/hymn-to-the-baobab/comment-page-1/#comment-1069 A short walk in the Gambian bush... | The Gambia Blog Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:56:23 +0000 http://www.thegambiablog.co.uk/?p=594#comment-1069 [...] the simplicity of life there. Even after all these years, I still want to cling onto the nearest Baobab tree because I don’t want to leave! There is just so much explore down there and its different every [...] [...] the simplicity of life there. Even after all these years, I still want to cling onto the nearest Baobab tree because I don’t want to leave! There is just so much explore down there and its different every [...]

]]> http://www.thegambiablog.co.uk/2009/07/hymn-to-the-baobab/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Kathryn Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:54:45 +0000 http://www.thegambiablog.co.uk/?p=594#comment-159 Another example of the baobab's mystical history is the tradition of burying griots (West African poet, praise singer, and wandering musician) in the hollows and crevices of the baobab trees. In time the tree trunks would grow round the bodies incasing them. It is said that if griots were buried in the ground that the crops would fail and the fish die. Another example of the baobab’s mystical history is the tradition of burying griots (West African poet, praise singer, and wandering musician) in the hollows and crevices of the baobab trees. In time the tree trunks would grow round the bodies incasing them. It is said that if griots were buried in the ground that the crops would fail and the fish die.

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